Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized, in part, by a quest for certainty, which causes the individual with OCD to ...

Living with an OCD spouse or partner can be brutal at times...But there are strategies you can implement to help yourself ...

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer from intrusive, obsessive thoughts. To ease their distress, they often feel compelled to engage in repetitive behaviors, or rituals ...

“After these intrusive thoughts and images pop up,” says Dr. Jones, “a lot of people with OCD feel they've got to do something repeatedly (e.g. washing hands, picking up and putting down ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects thousands of people in the UK, but is still often misunderstood. For OCD Awareness Week – 12 October to 19 October – Lucy Donoughue writes about ...

These obsessions and compulsions manifest themselves in various ways for different people with OCD. For example, some people may feel compelled to constantly disinfect their surroundings for fear ...

These factors can lead someone with OCD to checking and re-checking their phone over and over. The research conducted by the students opens new doors in studying how people with OCD can be ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health reported a large effect of ...

Young adults are most at risk of suffering from mental disorders in Singapore, the latest Singapore Mental Health Study found ...

The O in Olivia stands for OCD, an abbreviation for obsessive-compulsive disorder. People are often mistaken about OCD, Catherine says. So many people think it's about being very fastidious and ...

Thanks to phrases such as “I’m a bit OCD” or “stop being so OCD”, the myth that people with OCD solely focus on cleanliness and organisation continues to pervade. But underneath ...

For example, people with a first-degree relative (parent or sibling) with OCD are more likely to have the condition themselves — both due to genetics and the environment they're raised in.